PORQUE LOS MAYORES NO SON CONTRATADOS POR LAS EMPRESAS.
Unemployment
is a big problem in Spain, especially for elder people, because companies don’t
hire persons older than 40. These kinds of workers can have enough experience
in business and good professional skills to be hired. However, the age is a
handicap to get them on board.
Companies
instead hire young professionals because they are convinced that they have
better knowledge that the elder ones. Besides, youngers are assumed to have
technical skills to use any kind of devices and a good level in foreign
languages as English. Also companies’ managers believe that professionals who
have just gone out from the university are more motivated to work in any kind
of job, so they are going to do things better and faster than others who have
been working for years. Therefore, it is quite difficult for people over 40 to
apply for a job.
It is not easy
to change this attitude towards workers over 40. Perhaps the only thing left
for these elder people is to keep updated through business training courses during
their professional career. This continuous training should be reflected in the
senior’s curriculum, showing an interest to learn new subjects like languages,
technical devices skills as a smart mobile, and being updated in his / her
profession.
In my opinion,
workers of any area must study every chance whenever they can. The reason for
that is to be updated and to be able to have a curriculum to show to anybody
and, why not, to themselves, that they are enoughly trained to work in any
company though they are more than 40 years old.
